House blessing

We had an awesome housewarming party on October 4th. After all of mega amounts of work that have gone into the house and land (so far!), we were so ready to share our home with friends and celebrate.

We were extremely fortunate that Kainani and Halealoha offered to do a Hawaiian house blessing for us. The party was fun, but their blessing felt so right.

The 5 of us entered the house, along with Kainani and Halealoha.

The two of them chanted as we entered. We went to the 4 corners of the house and blessed them with water from the sea.
Halealoha also cut this maile lei with a ko'i. The lei represents the umbilical cord (as we gave birth to the house). He cut the cord, with GB helping by holding a board behind. The part that came off is the piko.

When that was complete, they sang again, and then we all shared some poi.

GB invited in our guests to all have some poi.

It was really magical!